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UTS

C04304version 4

CRICOS

087948F

The Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship is a unique 12-month intensive MBA designed for entrepreneurs and innovators. The program provides students with the skills, knowledge and networks needed to take an idea, develop it into a product or service offering, create a commercial or social venture and take the venture to market. Students learn fundamental business skills in accounting, finance, marketing, sales and data analytics, and develop knowledge in important areas of entrepreneurship and innovation management including learning how to identify and commercialise opportunities, apply start-up methods to develop products and services, seek support and funding for ventures, and scale entrepreneurial organisations. Students are embedded in the local entrepreneurial ecosystem (incubators, accelerators, venture capitalists) and exposed to global best practices while they develop networks useful for their own ventures.

Students with commercial or social venture ideas who want to develop their business and entrepreneurial skills and knowledge benefit from studying this program. The flexible modular structure of the program allows students to study the program in stages while developing and working on their entrepreneurial or innovation project. Students also have access to a project space, a mentor program and non-award-based master classes and events with entrepreneurs and other relevant industry practitioners who provide reality and rigour to supplement their classroom study.

Course aims

The course is designed to provide students with entrepreneurial skills and knowledge in a flexible and modular structure which is academically rigorous but also practical to enable the development of future entrepreneurs and innovators.

Jochen: Many people have great ideas, but it's often the next step in the journey when you're trying to realize that idea that's the difficult one. It's backing yourself, taking that risk and establishing that startup. There's no shortage of good ideas, but what we find that people need is 4 things: key knowledge, the entrepreneurial mindset, self confidence and networks.

We believe that we can create the conditions in which the entrepreneurial mindset can be taught and your ideas can grow.

David: What makes the MBA special is the fact that it's tailored for students, it's informed by great research and it's applied. Students get to work with their material straight away. That opportunity to actually use the knowledge immediately is a great benefit of this program.

Jochen: The UTS MBA and entrepreneurship is designed as 3 graduate certificates. Each of these certificates is helping you to build the business knowledge, the relationships and the self confidence to achieve your goals.

Melissa: Two things that you should consider before joining this course is what is your passion and what is the purpose? This is really important, because the subjects are designed in a way to enable you to create that purpose and to find a mechanism or a way of designing an organization that will allow you to achieve that purpose.

Luke: I'm a full believer in what the course is trying to do and I can honestly say, so far it's been absolutely amazing.

Jochen: The course content is being covered, UTS also delivers a whole range of other activities and that could include master classes, hackathons or incubators that will help you to build the networks and get in touch with the kind of people that you need to progress your idea.

Jochen: I'm really excited about this program, because it provides the opportunity for students to meet and to work with like minded people. The MBA entrepreneurship is about change. It's about making things happen. It's for those people who want to grow their idea into something that matters to themselves, to their community or to the world at large.

Typical study program

A typical full-time program is shown below for students commencing in Autumn session.

Autumn session

Credit PointsA credit point is the unit of measure of workload for individual subjects.

Course fees

Local student

In most cases, UTS offers domestic students entry to postgraduate courses on a fee paying basis.

Tuition fees are charged:

based on the particular course in which you are enrolled

based on the number of credit points in which you are enrolled

at the rates set for the current year and revised annually

Fees for future year(s) published in the online calculator, whilst unlikely to change, are estimates only. UTS makes every effort to provide up to date future year(s) fee estimates and to limit any changes, however, UTS reserves the right to vary fees for future year(s) at any time.

International student

Tuition fees for international postgraduate coursework students can be found using fees search.

Tuition fees must be paid in advance each session and are subject to annual increase. Fees for future year(s) published in fees search, whilst unlikely to change, are estimates only. UTS makes every effort to provide up to date future year(s) fee estimates and to limit any changes, however, UTS reserves the right to vary fees for future year(s) at any time.

For this course, the cost per credit point for 2019 is $832. The total credit points are 72.

All international students should familiarise themselves with the following documents:

Careers

The course suits students from business and non-business backgrounds who are interested in entrepreneurship and developing their own business, corporate innovation managers and executives wanting to upgrade their skills and knowledge, and current entrepreneurs who seek specific skills and knowledge in entrepreneurship.

Additional information

Course duration

The course is normally completed in one year of full-time study. However, the flexible modular structure of the program allows students to enter into any of the three graduate certificates at the time of their choosing.

Admission requirements

Admission requirements

Applicants must have completed a UTS recognised bachelor's degree, or an equivalent or higher qualification, or submitted other evidence of general and professional qualifications that demonstrates potential to pursue graduate studies.

Applicants also require:

a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 2.75 out of 4 with less than 10 per cent fail grades, or

Applicants with a Graduate Certificate in Commercialisation (C11251), Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship (C11252), or Graduate Certificate in Venture Acceleration (C11253) must have completed it with at least a credit average.

An interview process may also be required.

The English proficiency requirement for international students or local applicants with international qualifications is: Academic IELTS: 6.5 overall with a writing score of 6.0; or TOEFL: paper based: 550-583 overall with TWE of 4.5, internet based: 79-93 overall with a writing score of 21; or AE5: Pass; or PTE: 58-64; or CAE: 176-184.

Eligibility for admission does not guarantee offer of a place.

International students

Visa requirement: To obtain a student visa to study in Australia, international students must enrol full time and on campus. Australian student visa regulations also require international students studying on student visas to complete the course within the standard full-time duration. Students can extend their courses only in exceptional circumstances.

If you don't meet the admission requirements for this course, there may be alternative pathways to help you gain admission.

Recognition of prior learning

Course-specific recognition of prior learning information is available from the UTS Business School.

Articulation with UTS courses

While the Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship is offered as a standalone qualification, it is also part of an articulated program of study comprising the Graduate Certificate in Commercialisation (C11251), the Graduate Certificate in Entrepreneurship (C11252), the Graduate Certificate in Venture Acceleration (C11253), and the Master of Business Administration Entrepreneurship.

Where a student articulates from one level of study to another, only one testamur is issued.